Arcadia Mills No. 2, now the Mayfair Lofts, is a historic mill building at 100 W. Cleveland St.,
Spartanburg, South Carolina
Spartanburg is a city in and the county seat, seat of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States. The city of Spartanburg has a municipal population of 38,732 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the 11th-largest c ...
.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 2005.
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History
The mill was the built by Spartanburg banker and pharmacist, Dr. Henry Arthur Ligon, Sr., in 1922. It opened in 1923. It was the second mill of Arcadia Mills. The mills had an adjacent mill village
A mill town, also known as factory town or mill village, is typically a settlement that developed around one or more mills or factories, usually cotton mills or factories producing textiles. Europe
Italy
* ''Crespi d'Adda'', UNESCO World Her ...
of Arcadia, which had about 300 houses for the mill workers.[
During the Depression, the mill tried to increase production through a variety of methods such as increased hours and quickening the pace of the work. In 1932, the ]United Textile Workers of America
The United Textile Workers of America (UTW) was a North American trade union established in 1901.
History
The United Textile Workers of America was founded following two conferences in 1901 under the aegis of the American Federation of Labor (AFL ...
(UTWA) called a strike, but it failed. The workers did not participate in a nationwide UTWA strike in 1934.[
The mill was sold to a new company, Mayfair Mills, headed by a New York cotton agent, Joshua L. Baily and Company. Arcadia No. 2 was called Baily Mill or Mayfair-Baily Mill. ]Frederick B. Dent
Frederick Baily Dent (August 17, 1922 – December 10, 2019) was an American businessman who served as the United States Secretary of Commerce from February 2, 1973, to March 26, 1975, during the administrations of U.S. Presidents Richard M. Nixo ...
became president of Mayfair Mills in 1947. In 2001, Mayfair Mills went into bankruptcy.[
The mill building is currently the Mayfair Lofts apartments.
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See also
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* Arcadia Mill No. 1
Arcadia Mills No. 1, now the Arcadia Station Lofts, is a historic mill building at 1875 Hayne Street in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The mill was built in 1903 and enlarged in 1909, to designs by Greenville J.E. Sirrine. It is a well-preserved ...
also in Spartanburg, South Carolina
References
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Mayfair Lofts
Textile mills in South Carolina
Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Buildings and structures in Spartanburg, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Spartanburg, South Carolina
Apartment buildings in South Carolina
Cotton mills in the United States
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